David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a few more questions for the Minister while we’ve got him here. One of the things I heard the Minister mention was the fact that there are currently five vacancies at Stanton. Is that correct?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I take issue with the fact that if it’s good for 98 percent of the nurses in hospitals across the country, why the government would wade into this with a re-evaluation plan such as the Hay Plan which, to me, like I said, pits nurse against nurse in the same work environment. I don’t understand why they would go down that road. It doesn’t make much sense to me why we would do that in the first place, but here we are today and the Minister spoke of the nurses that saw an increase and the nurses that remained the same and some who even went down, but they’re pay...

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 19, Appropriation Act, 2005-2006, and would like to report progress and, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for that, Mr. Miltenberger. Back to prescriptions, there was a case a few weeks ago where a man purchased a phoney prescription in a local bar and got the prescription filled and the pharmacist noticed that the doctor’s name on the prescription wasn’t spelled correctly. That’s what gave it away. I’m just wondering how something like that could happen. Are these prescription pads left in the open? How would somebody get access to a prescription like that? What steps are you looking at taking to make sure that doesn’t happen again? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Monday, February 21, 2005, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nahendeh, that pursuant to section 18 of the Official Languages Act, Shannon Gullberg be appointed as Northwest Territories Language Commissioner; and further, that the appointment be effective February 22, 2005. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.